Posted on 03/30/2005 8:45:00 AM PST by stan_sipple
I'm with you, Paul. Republican leaders better start delivering on a broad range of issues, because all but the kneejerk Republican partisans are getting real tired of the lipservice.
Great analysis.
*Sigh.* Your statement was: I agree. Domination of the GOP by any religious order will only destroy the party.
The statement you were replying to said nothing about any religious 'order', only generalized reference to the 'religious right'. You appear to equate the 'religious right' with a religious 'order'; otherwise you wouldn't have said it. It's possible you just don't know what a religious order is, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. Therefore, you must be deliberately exaggerating, making out the religious conservatives to be something other than what they are (which is not an 'order' of any kind). Since you chose this route, this further implies that domination of the Republican party by a non-religious ideology is acceptable to you.
I don't expect a lot from Washington politicians. I don't expect strong moral leadership. I don't expect great wisdom. I DO expect is for them to do what's in their own best interests. I also expect them to be somewhat short-sighted. I suspect some (enough) of fearful that if they use the 'nuclear option', they won't have the filibuster available to them once they become the minority party again not quite accepting the probablity that Democrats will be more than willing to 'nuke' the filibuster when their turn come.
I figured an explanation would be over your head.
If this is the thinking of the quivering GOP leadership in the Senate, they are bigger fools than I previously thought.
"I don't expect a lot from Washington politicians. I don't expect strong moral leadership. I don't expect great wisdom. I DO expect is for them to do what's in their own best interests. I also expect them to be somewhat short-sighted. I suspect some (enough) of fearful that if they use the 'nuclear option', they won't have the filibuster available to them once they become the minority party again not quite accepting the probablity that Democrats will be more than willing to 'nuke' the filibuster when their turn come."
I suspect that you are right in your expectations.
I'd just say that it is a little much to expect ME to keep sending them money, and going out there to organize, pollwatch or vote for them given that this is how they are expected to behave.
Because, see, I have to worry about what I think of myself.
And right now I think of myself as having been a dupe, a droolin' rube, part of the Republicans' "Black Bloc".
A chump who has been too brave and worked too hard for men who are too feckless to be entitled to get that sort of effort on my part in the future.
I think it is time to turn back to family and faith and no longer be so wounded at weak men in a fallen world that cannot get up.
I thought we could. I really believed it. The President was willing to give the finger to the whole world to wage war. But won't just make some folks MAD in America (that's all that was at stake) by saving a woman from dying of thirst.
If they don't pass the Nuclear Option, I am gone.
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